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2026-09-05 17:10:07 GMT

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
Link: https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577975

2026-08-30 06:10:06 GMT

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495372

2026-08-30 01:30:07 GMT

Domain-Driven Agents
Link: https://coldtake.dev/blog/domain-driven-agents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492584

2026-08-30 00:45:09 GMT

Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Link: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-08-26/highest-ever-ocean-temperature-measured-as-powerful-el-nino-forms
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494231

2026-08-28 01:25:06 GMT

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
Link: https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471965

2026-08-17 18:35:07 GMT

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Link: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334544

2026-08-07 22:45:07 GMT

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?
Link: https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158302

2026-08-06 07:00:06 GMT

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Link: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566

2026-08-02 13:00:07 GMT

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side
Link: https://meshdiff.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143479

2026-07-16 22:25:07 GMT

Pseudpocalypse
Link: https://dynomight.net/pseudpocalypse/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908886

2026-07-16 04:35:07 GMT

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign
Link: https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930011

2026-07-08 15:20:07 GMT

It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830868

2026-06-25 18:20:07 GMT

I built a GPU back end for Emacs
Link: https://en.andros.dev/blog/4b707a03/how-i-built-a-gpu-backend-for-emacs/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642503

2026-06-15 15:40:07 GMT

Iroh 1.0
Link: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480

2026-06-13 08:05:07 GMT

Leaving Mozilla
Link: https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806

2026-06-12 13:40:05 GMT

Making a vintage LLM from scratch
Link: https://crlf.link/log/entries/260525-1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487829

2026-06-12 13:40:05 GMT

David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/design/david-hockney-dead.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502730

2026-06-12 06:30:07 GMT

How we made hit video game Prince of Persia
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/05/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-hit-video-game-prince-of-persia
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468852

2026-06-06 15:10:08 GMT

Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers
Link: https://microsoft.github.io/RustTraining/python-book/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423615

2026-06-06 15:10:07 GMT

Azure Linux Desktop
Link: https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-desktop-a-build-2026-mashup-of-wslc-winui-reactor-and-azure-linux-4-0/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422451

2026-06-05 21:15:06 GMT

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490

2026-06-01 21:55:06 GMT

Debug Project
Link: https://debug.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362347

2026-05-26 13:20:08 GMT

Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
Link: https://shmuplations.com/phantasystariv/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235812

2026-05-26 07:55:06 GMT

What it takes to transpose a matrix
Link: https://gudok.xyz/transpose/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256108

2026-05-20 18:30:07 GMT

Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops
Link: https://reubenbrooks.dev/blog/structural-backpressure-beats-smarter-agents/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209323

2026-05-18 16:10:07 GMT

Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/build-a-radio-wave-detector-with-balls-of-aluminum-foil/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150690

2026-05-17 08:45:07 GMT

Grafana Labs internal source code accessed
Link: https://twitter.com/grafana/status/2055827123236171827
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165902

2026-05-08 01:50:07 GMT

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
Link: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056158

2026-05-06 05:55:07 GMT

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
Link: https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030964

2026-04-30 22:25:07 GMT

Does Postgres Scale?
Link: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966625

2026-04-30 05:25:07 GMT

Mike: open-source legal AI
Link: https://mikeoss.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956739

2026-04-30 01:00:06 GMT

Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL
Link: https://bensimms.moe/postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921802

2026-04-29 15:35:07 GMT

Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew
Link: https://physicsworld.com/a/coffee-with-a-splash-of-physics-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-your-brew/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947318

2026-04-24 20:05:07 GMT

SFO Quiet Airport (2025)
Link: https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say-it-changed-everything/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894081

2026-04-23 16:25:07 GMT

France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-citizens-ids/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877366

2026-04-22 10:20:07 GMT

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Link: https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270

2026-04-16 05:45:07 GMT

IPv8 Proposal
Link: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788857

2026-04-12 21:35:06 GMT

Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-landmark-election-closely-watched-by-eu-russia-us-2026-04-11/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743961

2026-04-06 21:20:07 GMT

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135

2026-04-06 19:05:06 GMT

The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Insane
Link: https://bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-of-vibe-coding-is-insane
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664912

2026-04-06 19:00:06 GMT

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
Link: https://www.govauctions.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

2026-04-06 18:55:07 GMT

The Last Quiet Thing
Link: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637010

2026-04-06 11:30:06 GMT

Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
Link: https://www.dw.com/en/is-germanys-gold-safe-in-new-york/video-75766873
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659252

2026-04-04 23:05:07 GMT

Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604887

2026-03-31 13:10:07 GMT

U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years
Link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/wall-street-is-finishing-the-worst-quarter-for-stocks-in-four-years-31ac41ea
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586018

2026-03-30 17:55:07 GMT

New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements
Link: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/new-washington-law-bans-noncompete-agreements/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576861

2026-03-28 14:15:07 GMT

Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer
Link: https://github.com/dbrll/ATTN-11
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518568

2026-03-20 21:05:06 GMT

Attention Residuals
Link: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Attention-Residuals
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458595

2026-03-20 19:20:11 GMT

Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT
Link: https://perl.petamem.com/gpw2026/perl-mit-ai-gpw2026.html#/4/1/1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424592

2026-03-20 18:40:06 GMT

90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective
Link: https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202603172318
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456987

2026-03-20 17:45:07 GMT

MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System
Link: https://www.sharpai.org/benchmark/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457107

2026-03-20 17:00:07 GMT

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
Link: https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a-service
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319

2026-03-20 17:00:07 GMT

France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
Link: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitness-app_6751640_4.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453942

2026-03-20 16:55:06 GMT

VisiCalc Reconstructed
Link: https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410871

2026-03-20 16:15:06 GMT

Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: 'Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers'
Link: https://portlandtribune.com/2026/03/18/oregon-school-cell-phone-ban-engaged-students-joyful-teachers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456153

2026-03-20 16:05:06 GMT

Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/03/20/super-micro-shares-plunge-25-after-co-founder-charged-in-25-billion-ai-chip-smuggling-plot/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455365

2026-03-20 15:55:06 GMT

Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration
Link: https://linuxiac.com/germany-mandates-odf-for-public-administration/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454694

2026-03-20 14:45:06 GMT

Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate to treat symptoms
Link: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/03/schizophrenia-study-finds-new-biomarker-drug-candidate-to-treat-cognitive-symptoms
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454091

2026-03-20 14:30:08 GMT

Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost
Link: https://github.com/RasKrebs/sonar
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452515

2026-03-20 14:30:08 GMT

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
Link: https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407293

2026-03-20 14:30:08 GMT

Chuck Norris Has Died
Link: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/chuck-norris-dead-walker-texas-ranger-dies-1236694953/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454782

2026-03-20 13:55:08 GMT

I'm OK being left behind, thanks
Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454341

2026-03-20 13:15:08 GMT

Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
Link: https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452955

2026-03-20 13:15:08 GMT

Too Much Color
Link: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420950

2026-03-20 12:55:07 GMT

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver
Link: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/pedicab.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452399

2026-03-20 12:05:07 GMT

Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive
Link: https://www.willwhang.dev/Reading-MK4001MTD/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396593

2026-03-20 10:40:06 GMT

Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
Link: https://twitter.com/fynnso/status/2034706304875602030
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452404

2026-03-20 09:55:08 GMT

FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
Link: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451429

2026-03-20 08:00:08 GMT

FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
Link: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2026-anthropic-settlement
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403905

2026-03-20 06:50:07 GMT

Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441629

2026-03-20 05:55:06 GMT

How many branches can your CPU predict?
Link: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432779

2026-03-20 03:20:06 GMT

The day I discovered type design
Link: https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-day-i-discovered-type-design/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447690

2026-03-20 03:15:07 GMT

Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators
Link: https://gist.github.com/mattmanning/1002653/b7a1e88479a10eaae3bd5298b8b2c86e16fb4404
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448566

2026-03-20 01:45:06 GMT

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442452

2026-03-20 01:05:07 GMT

Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years
Link: https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448328

2026-03-20 01:00:06 GMT

Claude Code: Channels
Link: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448524

2026-03-20 00:50:07 GMT

Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
Link: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/march/bombarding-gamblers-with-offers-greatly-increases-betting-and-gambling-harm.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447600

2026-03-20 00:00:07 GMT

Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase
Link: https://aicode.swerdlow.dev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446373

2026-03-19 23:55:06 GMT

EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages
Link: https://esolang-bench.vercel.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446021

2026-03-19 23:40:07 GMT

Clockwise acquired by Salesforce and shutting down next week
Link: https://www.getclockwise.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444906

2026-03-19 22:20:07 GMT

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)
Link: https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2022-08-11-udp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444460

2026-03-19 22:00:07 GMT

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
Link: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445599

2026-03-19 21:20:08 GMT

Waymo 13x safer than human drivers
Link: https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/2034646084073480224
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445246

2026-03-19 21:20:08 GMT

Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]
Link: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2026/INOA-EA26002-10023.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445175

2026-03-19 21:00:08 GMT

I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
Link: https://fabian-kuebler.com/posts/markdown-agentic-ui/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439300

2026-03-19 20:30:07 GMT

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API
Link: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440309

2026-03-19 20:10:07 GMT

Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
Link: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/18186
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444748

2026-03-19 19:55:08 GMT

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster
Link: https://blog.skypilot.co/scaling-autoresearch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442435

2026-03-19 19:35:08 GMT

Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust
Link: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/noq-announcement
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443588

2026-03-19 19:30:09 GMT

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game
Link: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406160

2026-03-19 19:05:07 GMT

Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety
Link: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442690

2026-03-19 19:05:07 GMT

UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place
Link: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/4chan-fined-450000-for-not-protecting-children-from-online-pornography
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442838

2026-03-19 18:55:08 GMT

Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment
Link: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/jargon-watch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442215

2026-03-19 18:50:08 GMT

How to Not Pay Your Taxes
Link: https://taylor.town/succession-000
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442699

2026-03-19 18:25:08 GMT

World Happiness Report 2026
Link: https://www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441784

2026-03-19 18:15:09 GMT

Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence
Link: https://ramtrack.eu
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438342

2026-03-19 18:15:08 GMT

US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440430

2026-03-19 18:10:07 GMT

An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD
Link: https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/03/19/steam-changes-update
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442834

2026-03-19 17:25:08 GMT

The Shape of Inequalities
Link: https://www.andreinc.net/2026/03/16/the-shape-of-inequalities/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440284

2026-03-19 17:00:07 GMT

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
Link: https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441546